Order
Psittaciformes
Family
Psittacidae
Genus
Psittacara
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Cuban Parakeet Psittacara euops

Maikel Cañizares Morera and Eduardo E. Iñigo-Elias
Version: 1.0 — Published August 23, 2014

Systematics

Geographic Variation

Monotypic.

Subspecies

Related Species

Described as Xaxabes by Oviedo 1547 (Orbigny 1839). Psittacus rufirostris by Latham 1790, with type locality Isla de Cuba. Described as Sittace euops by Wagler 1832 and Conurus guyanensis by Orbigny 1839. For many years euops was included in the genus Aratinga (Ridgway 1916, Forshaw 1989, 2006, 2010, AOU 1998), but now is recognized as Psittacara euops (Remsen et al. 2013).

Recommended Citation

Cañizares Morera, M. and E. E. Iñigo-Elias (2014). Cuban Parakeet (Psittacara euops), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.cubpar2.01
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